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词组 live out
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Phr V
live out
lives, living, lived
live out sth
to remain in a particular place or in a particular condition until the end of your lifeusually + adv/prep
It was sad that she had to live out her last years in a nursing home.He lived out the final months of his life as a recluse.
if you live out something that you want to do {e.g. fantasy, ambition}, you do it or experience it
We dressed up in glamorous costumes and lived out our fantasies for one night.He was trying to live out his own ambitions through his son.
live out
British & Australian if a student or employee lives out, they do not live at the place where they study or work
Most second-year students choose to live out.
phraselive out1. live out your life/days/years to live for the rest of your life in a particular place or situation:+ in Edward Lear lived out his life in Italy, a sick and lonely old man. Too many old people live out their years in poverty.2. live out sth not passive to do or experience something that you have always wanted to do or imagined yourself doing: The money they won made it possible for them to live out their dreams. SIMILAR TO: fulfil, realize formal3. live out BrE if a student or a person who is employed in a house or school lives out, they do not live in the place where they study or work: A lot of second-year students decide to live out and share a house.

live out

1. To go through and complete a particular period of time. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "live" and "out." I just want to live my remaining years out on my grandfather's farm in the country.
2. To successfully achieve, accomplish, or complete some goal or desire. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "live" and "out." At the age of forty, I'm finally living out my dream of being a professional author. He's living his hopes out of becoming a surgeon.
3. To do something that mimics or acts out one's intimate dreams, desires, passions, or fantasies. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "live" and "out." The experience puts amateurs in the pilot seat, giving them the chance to live out their fantasies of flying an airplane.
4. To dwell or reside in a location away from one's place of employment or education. They offered the nanny a room in their house, but he said he preferred to live out.

live something out

to act out something such as one's fantasies. She tried to live her dreams out. He has a tendency to try to live out his fantasies.

live out

1. Complete or survive the end of a period of time, as in Grandpa wants to live out his days in a warmer climate. [First half of 1500s]
2. Reside away from one's place of employment, as in She's a fine housekeeper, but insists on living out. This expression is used primarily for domestic help. [Mid-1800s] Also see live in, def. 1.
3. live out of. Lead a lifestyle characterized by a particular item. This phrase appears in such idioms as live out of a suitcase, meaning "to travel so much that one has no time to unpack one's belongings," or live out of cans, meaning "to eat only canned food for lack of other foods or time to prepare them." For example, Traveling for months on end, he got very tired of living out of a suitcase, or We had neither gas nor electricity for a week and had to live out of cans.

live out

v.
1. To live outside one's place of domestic employment: You have to get home on time when you have a nanny who lives out.
2. To experience the passing and completion of some period of time or the attainment of something planned, desired, or imagined: She hopes to live out her dreams of becoming a famous author. He lived his last days out on a remote tropical island.
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